Netflix Unveils the Surprise Series That Dethroned The Witcher Season 4 After Henry Cavill's Exit

So, The Witcher Season 4 was supposed to be Netflix’s big torch pass to Liam Hemsworth. Instead, the numbers say something else entirely: a Kristen Bell/Adam Brody rom-com just lapped it.

Here’s where things stand. Netflix’s own Tudum stats put The Witcher in the No. 2 spot on the Global Top 10 with 7.4 million views for the week. The show that beat it? Nobody Wants This Season 2 with 9.4 million. There’s also a separate stat floating around from What’s on Netflix that says Nobody Wants This pulled 10.3 million views in its first four days. Those aren’t contradictory so much as they’re measuring different windows: one is the full-week chart; the other is an opening stretch tally.

None of this should be shocking if you’ve been following The Witcher’s trajectory. Fans were already frustrated back in Seasons 2 and 3 as the show kept detouring from Andrzej Sapkowski’s books (and, by extension, the tone of CD Projekt Red’s games). That tension boiled over when former writer Beau DeMayo claimed the room didn’t fully respect the canon:

"Some of the writers were not fans and actively mocked the source material."

Henry Cavill, who loudly championed staying true to the books, stuck it out through Season 3 but left afterward. Officially, he moved on; unofficially, his exit became the billboard for everything people felt was drifting off-course. Season 4 leans into choices that book loyalists see as even further afield, and the vibe around the new era has been more muted than momentous. Marketing didn’t help much either — it felt low-key for a supposed relaunch with a new Geralt.

Meanwhile, Nobody Wants This is doing exactly what viewers seem to want right now: light-on-its-feet, easy-to-press-play comfort with a sharp, slightly oddball voice. Rom-coms have room to experiment without tripping over decades of lore, and this one made some creative swings that connected. It’s not battling nostalgia; it’s just trying to be good company for half an hour.

If you’re curious what the rom-com overachiever actually is, here’s the cheat sheet:

• Title: Nobody Wants This (Season 2 just dropped)
• Creator: Erin Foster
• Main cast: Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Justine Lupe, Leighton Meester, Jackie Tohn
• IMDb score: 7.8/10 (at the time of writing)

To be clear, The Witcher isn’t dead in the water — it’s still pulling big attention, just not topping the chart the week it probably needed to. But the contrast is hard to ignore: one show is tinkering with a beloved fantasy epic and paying the price with purists, and the other is a fresh-feeling rom-com that isn’t burdened by sacred text.

Both The Witcher Season 4 and Nobody Wants This Season 2 are streaming now on Netflix (US). Are you diving back into The Continent with Hemsworth, or cozying up with Bell and Brody? Tell me which way you went in the comments.